Chapter 52 Buying Lemons
"Xiaoxiao, can you do me a favor and ask Mr. Li to collect all my bittersweet? Can you? Seeing how hard we have to pick it, can you help me?"
Granny Liu looked very pitiful and said that it was very difficult for her to go out to pick barley at such an old age. However, these words could not arouse Mr. Li's sympathy. Even Su Xiaoxiao could not arouse Mr. Li's sympathy. There is no way to sympathize with them.
Grandma Liu came over and asked Su Xiaoxiao for help, "You and Mr. Li are familiar with each other, can you help us to intercede and accept this bitter barley?"
This was the first time that Su Xiaoxiao saw Granny Liu asking for help from her in such a low voice, and Su Xiaoxiao felt a little uncomfortable.
This time, not to mention anything else, Su Xiaoxiao felt like she had seen Granny Liu's attitude for the first time in her life.
However, Su Xiaoxiao is not that familiar with Mr. Li. Even Su Xiaoxiao herself has not noticed such herbs, let alone other people.
Mr. Li was still a drug addict, so Su Xiaoxiao said to Granny Liu: "Sorry, I can't help you with this matter."
In fact, this kind of thing is not about Su Xiaoxiao collecting medicine in Ci'an Hall. She naturally doesn't mean what she says.
Some of the other people watching were also talking, "What do you mean?"
"Can it be said that your mother-in-law begged you in such a low voice, and you don't even want to help?" As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the crowd started to boo, saying that Su Xiaoxiao was too merciless.
Mr. Li saw that Granny Liu was unreasonable and was planning to use this incident to cause trouble in front of Ci'an Hall. This was simply unbearable.
So, he ordered Yao Tongzi to drive away Granny Liu and others.
In the end, even if Granny Liu didn't pay any attention to the price, it was a bit unjustifiable. She had to be driven away.
Everyone in Ci'antang thanked Su Xiaoxiao one after another. Now no one was too lazy to look at the bag of bitter barley that Granny Liu brought over.
And Granny Liu also knew that if no one collected the bitter barley, it would be a pile of garbage.
So, Granny Liu threw away the bag of bitter barley.
When Sun saw it from the side, she was already shocked.
She admired Su Xiaoxiao very much. Su Xiaoxiao dared to stick to her own position, not to mention killing relatives for justice, which was admirable anyway.
After the two sold the bitter barley to Ci'antang, they both got a large sum of money. Mrs. Sun thought that she could buy something to eat for her two children.
Su Xiaoxiao also happened to be short of a lot of things at home. Rice, flour, soybean oil, various vegetables, seasonings, etc. were all gone.
Besides, Sanlang is also at home now. Su Xiaoxiao can't ask Sanlang to prepare a lot of things to go home because his food is too poor.
She took Sun with her to the market.
Mrs. Sun is also planning to make new clothes out of floral cloth for her two children. Today they went up the mountain to pick some oranges.
Su Xiaoxiao decided to buy some more sugar, and she was going to make some jam.
At this time, Sun didn't understand.
"Sister, why did you buy so much sugar? This stuff is inedible. What a waste of money."
"I have my own uses."
Su Xiaoxiao answered.
Su Xiaoxiao thought again, "Sister Sun, do you know there is a lemon seller in this market?"
"What is a lemon?"
Sun said he didn't know.
Su Xiaoxiao thought the same thing, maybe this thing is only available abroad.
"But I know that there are some merchants from other countries on the east side of the market. They should have someone to sell, right?"
Although Ms. Sun didn’t know what lemons were, she thought they should be sold in Fanbang.
So, Mrs. Sun took Su Xiaoxiao to the east of the market, where they actually met a foreigner with yellow hair and blue eyes selling lemons. But it's a bit expensive, only ten cents each.
Su Xiaoxiao said quickly: "Isn't this too expensive? If you sell it for five cents, I will buy a few more."
This time, the countryman was worried that no one would buy his lemons. When he heard that someone was willing to pay to buy more, he was not happy, so he agreed to Su Xiaoxiao's bargaining.
Su Xiaoxiao said she wanted to buy a hundred lemons. In the end, Fanbangren was so happy that he sold all the lemons to Su Xiaoxiao for three cents for ten cents.
In fact, the lemon tasted very fragrant. The native took a knife and cut a piece of lemon directly, cut a piece of lemon and handed it to Su Xiaoxiao.
"Madam, you can have a taste."
After Su Xiaoxiao tasted it, she gave the Fanbang people a thumbs up.
"sure!"
When Mrs. Sun saw it, she came over to ask for a piece and put it in her mouth, "Ah, what is this? It's so sour that it kills you!"
"Ha ha……"
Su Xiaoxiao looked on and burst into laughter. Fanbangren also explained: "Of course, the more sour the better, otherwise why would it be called a lemon?"
Su Xiaoxiao put these lemons on her ox cart. She looked at her ox cart and felt that it was not as exciting as Wupeng's cart, and thought that she would make more money in the future.
Generally, the people who come to the East Market to buy things are quite wealthy, and driving a tall black horse carriage makes them look more dignified.
Su Xiaoxiao looked envious. When Su Xiaoxiao returned home, the two children came over and saw that Su Xiaoxiao had bought a lot of lemons. They didn't know what they were and they were very curious.
After Su Xiaoxiao cut a small piece for them, both babies lost interest and ran away to play.
Saburo comes over and wants to taste the lemon.
"It's so sour. Do you want to try it?"
Saburo nodded, picked up a cut lemon and put it in his mouth with a very funny expression.
But no matter how handsome guys make strange expressions, they are still handsome guys. There is no way. Su Xiaoxiao can't understand that she can be eaten by Saburo with a lemon expression that is so handsome.
Fortunately, he stopped looking in time to prevent himself from sinking. Saburo spit out the lemon.
"What kind of fruit is this? It's the first time I've eaten it?"
Su Xiaoxiao said with a bad smile: "You didn't expect it? This is a lemon."
"Why did you buy these sour lemons?"
"I'm going to make jam."
Su Xiaoxiao replied.
"You make jam? Can you do it? How about we go to the store and buy it?"
“The food sold in the store is not delicious.”
Su Xiaoxiao's answer was the same. She remembered that the jam she ate at the Eight Immortals Tower had a pasty taste, and it looked dark, with no orange fragrance at all.
After she washed the rind of an orange, she took out the pulp and chopped it into pieces, even the peel.
This time, she didn't do much, just tried her best.
After the first pot of jam came out, she added the sugar she bought today, then sliced the lemon and put it in, squeezing in a lot of lemon juice.
The two children looked on, not knowing what good things Su Xiaoxiao was making, but they were attracted by the refreshing fruity fragrance.
(End of chapter)